MP Hobeish to LBCI: Acts of assassination do not pay off

 
Future Bloc MP Hadi Hobeish denounced on Thursday the assassination of prominent Syrian pro-government figure Mohammed Darrar Jammo yesterday, noting that acts of assassination do not change the policy of a certain party.     

In an interview with LBCI's Nharkom Said TV Show, MP Hobeish pointed out that "the breach of Hezbollah's security was not surprising since the security system of the United States, which possesses the most powerful intelligence agencies, was breached during the September 11 attacks".

Gunmen assassinated a prominent Syrian pro-government figure at his home in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, shooting him nearly 30 times in the latest sign of Syria's civil war spilling over into its smaller neighbor.         

Mohammed Darrar Jammo was gunned down in the coastal town of Sarafand, a stronghold of Hezbollah. Resentment against the Shiite militant group has grown over its open participation in the Syrian conflict on the side of President Bashar Assad's forces.         

Assassinations of politicians, army officers and journalists who support Assad's regime are not uncommon in Syria, but the killing of a well-known Syrian in Lebanon is rare. It shook the fiercely pro-Syrian town in Lebanon's south, largely bypassed by clashes and bombings that have plagued other areas.         

Violence linked to Syria's civil war is increasingly washing across Lebanon, threatening to unleash large-scale fighting. On Tuesday, a roadside bomb struck a Hezbollah convoy near the Syrian border, and last week a car bomb in south Beirut wounded 53 people in the heart of the group's bastion of support.        

The attacks point to Hezbollah's growing vulnerability over its participation in the war in Syria. The group's involvement in the fighting there has prompted warnings from Syrian rebel groups, who have threatened to retaliate on Hezbollah's home turf.



LBCI/REUTERS